John Kerry

Members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee have been attacking the Iranian nuclear deal with the sword — and the thesaurus. "You guys have been bamboozled," Sen. Jim Risch told three cabinet members during a recent hearing. "You've been fleeced," Committee Chairman Bob Corker told Secretary of State John Kerry. (He then compared Kerry to a victimized guest leaving a hotel with nothing but a bathrobe on. Ouch!) "Bamboozled"? "Fleeced"? Maybe we need to impose "term" limits after all. But where do these words for being duped come from? "Bamboozle" derives from "bamboo," suggesting that hiding the...

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